SongKit

I’m a 68 year old who decided to play guitar again after 20 plus years. I had some old yellowed paper (remember that?) chord charts and decided to use SongKit for the chord charts. Excellent functionality and presentation, plus the PDF output can provide me with quality paper copies as well. Using Siri dictation certainly speeds up the process.

I’ve looked for an app like this for ages. I have downloaded and tried so many apps for creating basic lead sheets with chords and vocals to share with jam buddies and band mates. Until now none of them were very satisfying. Chord! is great and has a huge range of features including the ability to generate lead sheets, but SongKit focuses on its core function of creating lead sheets, without any extraneous functionality that would complicate the interface. The first time I opened it up on my iPad, it took only moments to create a new song, set the key, type some lyrics and add chords. I’m excited to see how tablature is supported, but even without that bonus feature this is an absolutely perfect app for quickly generating lead sheets and organizing songbooks. Well done - thanks so much for building this great tool for musicians!

I was a long time user of Chord! And had a couple of hundred songs in the app. When SongKit came out I was somewhat dismayed as I had put so must of an investment into Chord! and was used to it. It was familiar and easy to get around in, for me. However, I tried SongKit and now have close to 400 songs in it. SongKit has a much easier interface for song creation and maintenance. I am very happy I gave it a chance because it is now my app of choice for storing my music. Don’t get me wrong, I still use many of the features of Chord! also and think the two apps together make a winning team. Kudos to the developer.

Easy to use. Very intuitive. Knocked out my first transcription in an hour including having to look for the right chords for the arrangement. This app needs the ability to input a melody line in between the chord diagrams and the lyric line. Needs that asap. Thank you.

Is there a Mac version in the works? Even just an iPad port for Apple silicon machines would be fantastic. I literally use this app every day. I’ve never felt more organized about my music.

This app is missing any ability to notate rhythm or pitches using musical staff. The transposition feature is cool but no staff or rhythmic notation is a deal breaker. I was hoping to use this as a replacement for carrying around my fakebook to notate full song forms. All the visuals are cool but I could not recommend this to any serious musician. I really like the app chord! by this developer. Would consider updating review if musical staff and rhythm are addd.

THIS APP IS KILLER AND THE-MOST EFFICIENT FOR SHARING WITH THE BAND. JUST WISH YOU CAN AUTOMATICALLY CONVERT FROM GUITAR TO PIANO REGARDLESS OF VOICINGS

Solid but doesn’t include 7 strings and PDF import. The import in general is a little spotty but I can see the use case.

I’ll just say I’m very grateful this app exists. Makes it very easy to quickly sketch out a song, lyrics, chords and all. Easy to print, too. Awesome app.

I love this app so far! I’ve already put several songs in and transposed them and played around with them without problem. My only issue is that it doesn’t look like I can put words over or under tablature. From what I’ve been able to figure out I can only put it in a block with chords underneath the tab. Other than that though I love this app! Edit: One major thing is that this app doesn’t support traditional sheet music. Other than that and the above, gold!